Issue 02/2017

“Let’s make music as friends” was the motto of the American director Leonard Bernstein. The greatly diverging interests of the individual parties...

I have the pleasure to welcome you all to this 61st BetonTage edition not only as the president of BIBM, the federation of the European precast...

It is an honor for fib, the International Federation for Structural Concrete, and for me personally, as the new president, to co-sponsor this event...

The huge variety of current discussions impressively demonstrates how wide the range of potential applications of concrete is. We are talking about...

Optimized processes and ­latest technologies are the characteristics of the new Towermix models made by SBM Mineral Processing. The milestone set in...

Over 400 members, guests and construction industry represen-tatives attended The Concrete Society Awards Dinner held at the Grosvenor House Hotel,...

The adhesive specialist Bühnen of Bremen, Germany, has a new Managing Director. As the family-run company reports, the Managing Partner Hanno Pünjer...

Kemmler Baustoff GmbH, manufacturer of structural and precast elements, upgrades its control system and technology at the Tübingen location. In this...

R-TECH has been active in the design and production of transport racks for the precast concrete industry since 1998. The transport racks are...

Polarmoist is an outstanding optical moisture sensor designed for detecting moisture contained in concrete aggregates. The sensor embeds a...

Modern, airtight windows and doors are a blessing when it comes to energy saving. Unfortunately, they also create an ideal environment for mold...

The Conwood frameworks product series can rightly be called a true world first. Because the innovative hybrid module made of timber and carbon...

At the beginning of December 2016, the new production site of Schöck Hungaria Kft. in Pilis, southeast of the Hungarian metropolis of Budapest, was...

The worldwide tallest pylons of the giant building structure of the Bosphorus bridge in Istanbul rise up to an enormous height of 320 m. Curtain walls...

Nowadays, cast stones manufactured in a wet-cast process are regarded as being high-quality design products. The trend of coarse imitations of natural...

The duration and effectiveness of a construction procedure can be positively influenced in advance by logistics processes. Optimal planning includes...

The Kniele KKM-RT 15/22,5 combines a high-intensity laboratory mixer with a rheometer that provides the rheological properties of the mix in either...

We have already announced it (see BFT International 01/2017, page 1). Here it comes: the BFT app. You find the app in the Apple App Store, at Google Play or at Amazon. There, you can download the app...

Rapid International Ltd., County Armagh, Northern Ireland, has recently supplied Scotland-based Hoddam Contracting Co. Ltd. with a newly updated Rapid...

The Dusseldorf Wehrhahn line shows in its design how innovative modern Concrete building block can be. However, a look at the expensive and...

Eurobend provides solutions for all precast plant layouts that are suitable for any element dimensions and types of application. Its tried-and-tested...

Forward thinking has always been part of the company philosophy cultivated at Albert Regenold GmbH based in the Mittelbaden town of Bühl-Vimbuch. It...

Three times in the course of a single day of the trade show, the team at the BFT stand was requested to provide a link to potential investors or...

The RA100 Concrete measuring instrument uses the existing technical possibilities to adapt natural frequency analysis for the determination of the...

Within the framework of a research project of the Central Innovations Program for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (ZIM) of the BMWi, Scheidel...

The freeze-thaw damage pattern of concrete is primarily linked to the water contained in the pore system, which is also referred to as the saturation...

Description of building and structural components This office and commercial building includes seven stories. Its load-bearing structure mainly...

Evolution principles of biological systems have become increasingly important as idea pools. The Institute of Applied Construction Research IAB Weimar...

In the run-up to the Marrakech Climate Change Conference, the German federal government adopted a climate action plan that envisages a 55 % reduction...

The presentation deals with an engineering model on the basis of tests regarding the load-bearing behavior of roof sandwich elements comprising 70 mm...

The requirements regarding the energy efficiency of buildings are a well-known and inevitable fact to which the construction industry responds, too....

In the last few years, lightweight concretes of grade LC12/13 D1.2 have been most commonly used for structural lightweight concretes with thermal...

In the construction industry, one of the primary objectives of developing products and designing manufacturing processes is to integrate the aspect of...

Either of these projects is in the focus of the general public, and opinions strongly diverge even within the architectural community. Quite a number...

DUCON (DUctile CONcrete) merges a high-strength concrete design with a three-dimensional micro-reinforcement to create an innovative, ductile,...

In Germany, it is unlikely that the rate of households connected to centralized wastewater treatment facilities will surpass 95 % even in the long...

The processing of cementitious materials is at the technological core of modern construction. In recent years, new construction techniques such as 3D...

With the new admixture for concrete MasterSuna SBS from the Master Builders Solutions Portfolio from BASF, clayey sands can now be used in production...

The Auwald Sports Center of the municipality of Gundremmingen in Germany accommodates, in addition to its sports hall a shooting range, a function...

Whether the economy is trending well or not, asking members of an industry association to support an increase in the number of staff at the...

The sewage treatment plant in Niederselters, Germany, has been in operation since 1978. In 2013, after defects in the concrete had been determined, a...

Fresh concrete composite systems are increasingly being used to seal or waterproof concrete structures. They have proven their worth in construction...

MC-Bauchemie has introduced a new environmentally friendly, mineral oil-based concrete release emulsion onto the market in the form of Ortolan...

There is nothing that cannot be improved in the course of the years – also in mixing technology and mechanical engineering. This is true also of mixer...

(10) DE 20 2016 005 521 U1 (22) 12.09.2016 (45) 01.12.2016 (57) Betonelement als Schallschutzeinrich­tung, bestehend aus einer Trageinheit und einer...

(10) DE 10 2015 109 887 Al (22) 19.06.2015 (43) 22.12.2016 (57) Um ein Wärmedämmsystem zur vertikalen, lastabtragenden Verbindung von aus Beton zu...

(10) DE 10 2015 110 129 Al (22) 24.06.2015 (43) 29.12.2016 (57) Eine Sichtbeton-Schalung besitzt eine Schalhaut 8, wobei ein Schalhautstoß 6 zwischen...

(10) DE 10 2015 008 226 Al (22) 29.06.2015 (43) 29.12.2016 (57) Die Erfindung betrifft ein Stahlbe­tonbauteil (1) mit zumindest einer in Beton...

(10) DE 10 2016 111 176 Al (22) 17.06.2016 (43) 22.12.2016 (57) Die Erfindung betrifft Betonbeweh­rungsgitterelement (1), insbesondere zur Bewehrung...

(10) DE 20 2016 006 341 U1 (22) 08.10.2016 (45) 08.12.2016 (57) Einrichtung zur Betonfertigteilherstel­lung mit einer Batterieform (2) zur Aufnahme...

(10) DE 10 2015 108 257 Al (22) 26.05.2015 (43) 01.12.2016 (57) Dargestellt und beschrieben ist ei­ne Vorrichtung (1, 1‘) zur Bearbeitung von...

(10) DE 10 2013 105 090 B4 (22) 17.05.2013 (43) 20.11.2014 (57) Betonschwelle (1) für eine feste Fahr­bahn (23), mit einem Dübelstein (12), der mit...

(10) WO 2016/198720 Al (22) 09.06.2016 (57) The invention relates to a method and tooling for manufacturing prestressed concrete members by molding,...

(11) EP 3 109 021 Al (22) 07.06.2016 (43) 28.12.2016 Patentblatt 2016/52 (57) Die Erfindung betrifft ein Verfahren und eine Vorrichtung zur...

(10) DE 10 2015 008 165 Al (22) 25.06.2015 (43) 29.12.2016 (57) Die Erfindung betrifft ein Mauersys­tem für die Landschaftsgestaltung, das aus...

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(11) EP 3 103 756 Al (22) 08.06.2015 (43) 14.12.2016 Bulletin 2016/50 (57) A method for attaching a lifting element (6) to aconcrete body (1, 12),...

(10) DE 20 2016 106 082 U1 (22) 28.10.201 (45) 29.12.2016 (57) Warnstein (1) aus Beton zum Einbau in eine Fahrbahn einer Straße, der eine...

(10) US 2016/0362890 Al (22) 10.06.2016 (43) 15.12.2016 (57) A free standing wall panel system including a wall panel member and an associated base...

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(10) US 9,518,388 B1 (22) 01.02.2016 (45) 113.12.2016 (57) Construction method for producing beam and slab made of compound concrete containing...

(10) US 2016/0376756 Al (22) 26.06.2015 (43) 29.12. 2016 (57) A method of producing a precast concrete bridge and headwall assembly, includes the...